上工 (shǎng) — to start work (for manual labor, factory, or farm work); to go to work (in a physical-labor context)

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• 工人们每天早上七点上工。
  Gōng rén men měi tiān zǎo shàng qī diǎn shǎng.
  The workers start work at seven every morning.
• 他今天没来上工，因为生病了。
  Tā jīn tiān méi lái shàng gōng, yīn wèi shēng bìng le.
  He didn't come to work today because he was sick.
• 这个月我上了二十天工。
  Zhè ge yuè wǒ shàng le èr shí tiān gōng.
  I worked twenty days this month.